In the spirit of Blue-White celebrations, two singing groups, the Penn State Glee Club and the Singing Lions, will perform semester finale concerts this weekend.

The Penn State Glee Club will perform Saturday at 8 p.m. in Schwab Auditorium to celebrate its 120th anniversary.

As the oldest student organization on campus, the group predates the Blue Band and the Nittany Lion mascot and formed only two years after the football team, said Glee Club conductor and assistant professor of music Christopher Kiver.

The club's annual Blue and White Concert will not only showcase the current club, but also a group of more than 70 returning alumni -- even one traveling from as far as California, Kiver said.

"There's a good sprinkling from the '40s through at least '07 graduates," Kiver said, adding there will be at least one Class of '47 glee club alumnus.

The first half of the concert will feature performances by current members of the Glee Club, and the Glee Club Alumni Choir will perform for the second half. The two groups will converge for the finale.

"We'll all join up on stage together and end with the Penn State fight songs and the alma mater," Glee Club president Peter Gray said.

Songs will range in style from Renaissance to contemporary and popular numbers, Kiver said.

The Hi-Lo's -- a 16-member subset of the Glee Club -- will also perform, singing pop-culture music, Gray (junior-industrial engineering) said.

"They do more of the fun kind of crowd-pleasing favorites," he said.

The Hi-Lo's include the 16 best singers selected during an audition each semester, Kiver said.

"We usually always have a very good turnout," Gray said. "This year we are hoping to sell it out or have standing room only. That's our goal."

To round off Blue-White weekend, Penn State's Singing Lions will perform at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at St. Paul's United Methodist Church, 109 McAllister St., for their final show of the semester.

Singing Lions president George Heigel (senior-actuarial science) said this weekend's event will represent the culmination of hard work on the part of the group's members, including six graduating seniors.

"This is the most talented group we have had in the four years that I have been involved with the Singing Lions," Heigel said. "We have a very diverse program that includes pop, gospel, musical theater, solos and even some barbershop quartets."

The group of 20 members makes an effort to get involved by performing for the State College and Penn State communities throughout the semester and recently completed its annual spring tour to alumni associations along the East Coast into Florida, Heigel said.

Alyssa Farrell (senior-theater and public relations) said that in addition to the traditional showchoir repertoire, the group's program contains familiar tunes, such as "Fight on State" by Joe Sanders and "Alma Mater" by Fred Lewis Pattee, both of which the Singing Lions performed last semester.

"We perform downtown in front of the Student Book Store and the Family Clothesline to get the crowd excited for the football games," she said.

Heigel said many of the songs in Sunday's show will feature senior soloists and songs about saying goodbye because the graduating group is so large this year.

"The dynamic of the group is definitely going to change when so many people leave," he said. "It will be almost an entirely different group after this."

Tickets for the Singing Lions are $3 for students and $4.99 for general admission. For the Glee Club concert, tickets are $3 or $8 with a student ID.